AIMC Topic: General Surgery

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[Digitalization in surgery : What surgeons currently think and know about it-results of an online survey].

Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
BACKGROUND: The digitalization process is currently on everyone's lips and sweeping changes in the field of public health and especially in surgery are to be expected within the next few years. Besides general issues, such as electronic health record...

Artificial Intelligence: Can Information be Transformed into Intelligence in Surgical Education?

Thoracic surgery clinics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being rapidly integrated into various medical applications. Although early application of AI has been achieved in image-based, as well as statistical computational models, translation into procedure-based specialties s...

Using Machine Learning to Assess Physician Competence: A Systematic Review.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
PURPOSE: To identify the different machine learning (ML) techniques that have been applied to automate physician competence assessment and evaluate how these techniques can be used to assess different competence domains in several medical specialties...

Telesurgery prospects in delivering healthcare in remote areas.

JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Feasibility and safety of performing remote surgery was first established by performing surgeries on pigs in later part of the 20th century. The first tele-robotic remote surgical system was set up in Canada in 2003 between two hospitals 400 kilometr...

Predicting Mortality in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit Using Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing of Physician Documentation.

The American surgeon
The purpose of this study was to use natural language processing of physician documentation to predict mortality in patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). The Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care III database...

A short history of robotic surgery.

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
A concise review of the use of robotic technology to enhance surgery

Incorporation of Anterior Lumbosacral Spine Exposure into a General Surgical Practice.

The American surgeon
Many spine surgeons enlist the aid of an "access surgeon" to provide anterior exposure of the lumbosacral spine. We proposed that a single, community hospital general surgery practice can successfully develop an anterior spine exposure program with a...

Hyperglycemia Is Associated with Surgical Site Infections among General and Vascular Surgery Patients.

The American surgeon
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common cause of morbidity in general and vascular surgery patients. There is inconsistent evidence on the association of glycemic status with SSI, and its utility in predicting and mitigating SSI. General and vascul...

Integrated HTA-FMEA/FMECA methodology for the evaluation of robotic system in urology and general surgery.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
OBJECTIVES: The following study proposes and tests an integrated methodology involving Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for the assessment of specific aspects related to robotic surgery in...